Am 19.09.2021 um 14:27 schrieb Ken Brown via Cygwin:
On 9/19/2021 2:42 AM, ASSI wrote:
I'm pretty sure the GNU coding standards have required
it since day 1. Automake generates tons of makefile real estate just
for this.
I don't see that requirement in the current document:
https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html
There is a requirement that the sources for such files are provided
alongside the instruction on how to re-generate them.
I'm not sure how much we should worry about the GNU standards for
release tarballs. Those standards are written for GNU projects, which
are supposed to run on many different systems. The cygwin package
runs only on Cygwin.
On the other hand, maybe we could do a better job of documenting how
to rebuild a package from source via cygport.
And via git clone, please, because that's the way developers start if
they want to contribute to cygwin.
I still claim it's a bad idea to hide that script in a subdirectory; it
should at least reside in the top-level directory, so if someone sees a
script "auto..." there, it will be an attempt to proceed with.
Ken
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